ADOPTING ORDINANCE
ORDINANCE NO. 96-11
ENACTING AS AN ORDINANCE, A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF WINCHESTER, INDIANA, REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING, AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SAID CODE
WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the City of Winchester are incomplete and inadequate and the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Acts of the State Legislature of the State of Indiana empower and authorize the Common Council of the City of Winchester to revise, amend, restate, codify and to compile any existing ordinance or ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate said ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of Winchester has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the city of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinances in book form.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of Winchester that:
Section 1: The general ordinances of the City of Winchester, Indiana as herein revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances of the City of Winchester, Indiana."
Section 2: Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles, to-wit:
Title I General Provisions
Title III Administration
Title V Public Works
Title VII Traffic Code
Title IX General Regulations
Title XI Business Regulations
Title XIII General Offenses
Title XV Land Usage
Tables of Special Ordinances
Parallel References
Index
Section 3: All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of said Code, nor shall such repeal affect the provisions of ordinances levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory, establishing franchises or granting special rights to persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plat or dedication of land to public use, naming or vacating or setting the boundaries of streets, alleys or other public places, nor to any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained therein.
Section 4: Said Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the Common Council of the City of Winchester and the Clerk of the City of Winchester is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the City Clerk.
Section 5: Said Code shall be in full force and effect weeks from the date of its publication and filing thereof in the Office of the Clerk, and said Code shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the ordinance and all provisions, sections, penalties and regulations therein contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is properly signed, attested, recorded and approved and that any public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been given.
PASSED,AND ADOPTED y the Common Council of the City of Winchester, Indiana this 16th day of Sept. , 1996.
Dick P. McCord /s/ William Monroe /s/
Council Member Council Member
James R. Passmore /s/ Steve Croyle /s/
Council Member Council Member
Mark Stevick /s/
Council Member
This Ordinance passed by the Common Council of the City of Winchester, Randolph County, Indiana this 16 day of Sept. , 1996.
Jack L. Fowler /s/
Jack Fowler, Mayor
ATTEST:
Marilyn Pash /s/
Marilyn Pash, Clerk-Treasurer